Cornell has launched a new Public History Initiative, led by Stephen Vider, as part of the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.
The Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture initiative, part of the provost’s Radical Collaboration effort that is focused on the humanities and the arts, has made six hires for this school year.
Nine projects, many multidisciplinary, are receiving grants of approximately $155,000 this year from the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs.
Herb Voelcker, professor emeritus of engineering and a pioneer in solid modeling, the technology that enabled early computer-aided design, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 90.
Architect Jenny Sabin, the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, won the 2015 Ivy Innovator Award Dec. 9.
Professor of art Carl Ostendarp has created wall paintings as backdrops for an exhibition of expressionist and modern art opening May 12 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Cornell wind energy scientists have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds – to improve turbine placement.
Starting this Thursday, cars will be banned from lower Manhattan’s 14th street as part of an 18-month experiment to improve traffic flow. The 1.1-mile stretch will only allow buses, trucks, bikes and pedestrians. Only local businesses and residents will have car access to the street.
Anamika Goyal spoke on a panel at the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women March 13-14, an annual gathering of global leaders focusing on the status of rights of women and girls.
